[phenixbb] Unmasking cavities
Pavel Afonine
PAfonine at lbl.gov
Fri Oct 3 18:17:32 PDT 2008
Hi Frank,
I just want to add to Ralf's very comprehensive reply... The parameters
solvent_radius, shrink_truncation_radius and grid_step_factor are
explained in the original paper:
Jiang, J.-S. & Brünger, A. T. (1994). J. Mol. Biol. 243, 100-115.
"Protein hydration observed by X-ray diffraction. Solvation properties
of penicillopepsin and neuraminidase crystal structures."
The details of PHENIX implementation of this are described here:
P.V. Afonine, R.W. Grosse-Kunstleve & P.D. Adams. Acta Cryst. (2005).
D61, 850-855. "A robust bulk-solvent correction and anisotropic scaling
procedure"
Also, the negative peaks you observe can easily be Fourier series
truncation ripples. I think Ralf's suggestion to place some dummy atoms
there with zero occupancy is a good idea. I wouldn't even do any
refinement (since moving atoms may cancel these artifacts), but just
compute two maps - with and w/o the dummy atoms and see what happens to
these negative peaks.
Cheers,
Pavel.
On 9/28/2008 3:25 PM, Frank von Delft wrote:
> Hi
>
> After being through phenix.refine, I see in my hydrophobic core a big
> space (a few atoms wide) that is filled with strong negative difference
> density. I suspect the culprit is the bulk solvent mask, which is
> defined too tightly.
>
> The online manual mentions three parameters, but not what they do.
> solvent_radius,
> shrink_truncation_radius,
> grid_step_factor
>
> What *exactly* do they do?
>
> (I thought I'd elicit a contribution for the online docs this way :)
> Cheers
> phx
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